The Labor enquirer., 1887-04-23
BLO!ODHOUNDS! !!
The Dogs Of Depotism Are
Trailing Liberty On Amer
lean Soil
ARB WEARUSSIAN PROVINCE.
The Most Infamous Violation Of the
international Rights Of Sanctuary
Ever. Knownl

This last week the body Of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN was raised from his secret grave
where It had been laid to prevel its theft,
where it had been watched by night and
by day by faithful friends.
IT WAS TIME THAT THIS PATRIOT SHOULD
RISE PROM HIS GRAVE, when such horrors,
such dissertations, such infamies are per-
mitted as this Que we chronicle below.
Here is thing done in Republic,
that Old England with all her dukes and
dudes and bastard stabbers of Liberty,
dare not even whisper her ,riH to do.
From John swlnton's Paper.
With much pleasure have read your
editorial in last issue upon "Bayard and
the Bloody Gar" Truly, you always
were, as You are now, the staunch expo
nent Of the Russian Revolutionary party
and of the Russian nation in its fight
against its Asiatic despots. Personally,
have been indebted to you, at many crit
ical moments, ever since first met you at
Karl MARKS house.
As to my friends, the Russian refugees
in America in general. aud as to myself,
you are right when You say, referring to
the extraiition treaty concluded recently
between the American and Russian gov
ernments, that the mere fact of its assured
reputation by congress, if the popular
branch of congress had any power in the
premises, 'shows the impolity of the con-
cessions which Secretary Bayard has made
to the detriment of all Russian refugees
in the United States"
But that isnot all. Had the Russian
refugees alone been concerned, that treaty
would not be such monstrous injustice
as it is. The whole Russian nation is here
concerned.
You know, my dear Mr.. Swinton, that
over 5000 of the involuntary subjects of
the executed cut-throat, Alexander I.-all
his personal enemies-have been hanged
by him. You know that over $4,000 per-
sonal enemies of the present and the past
despot are suffering in prisons, in fort
resses, and in Siberia. Not even children
or babies are free from the czar's perse-
cution.
The, father cut-throat succeeded in
stamping ont the Revolutionary move
ment that terminated in the attempt of
Karakozoff; he succeeded in killing the
movement, headed by Netchaieff, as Gear
Nicholas killed the movement of the De-
cembrists. They had experience, those
savage autocrats; and, with the death of
his father, the son cut-throat put another
screw on the nation, confident of success
in roofing out his enemies. That was a
terrible attack, equaled in brutality and
determination only by the old Spanish in
QUESTION. f
But what was the results
After six years of seeming inactivity,
under apparent extinction, the Revolu-
tionary party rises anew in all its might,
far surprising anything in previous years.
Surely it has gained ground in the ma
tipn. Surely its cause is the cause of the
nation. were'this not so, it would long
ago have been extinct.
At this time, you see new feature of
the party of the "Will of the Peoples"
to-wit: that it has in its ranks many Off
GERS and privates of the army, navy and
artillery. You see yet another feature,
which is that not singly or in couples or
threes, as formerly, but in far greater
numbers, our Russian fighters go to the
battle for the Cause of Humanity equipped
with cofiins and provided with the agen-
cies of self-poisoning.
Truly, they have attained as high a
standard of mental and moral perfection
as made Buddha immortal. Those men,
with their collins in their hands, need uot
American hospitality. Inspired by the
great Cause, and with the recognition by
the whole nation of their services to it,
they freely sacrifice themselves.
But what is dear to them and what is
dear to me, to all my friends, and to my
whole unfortunate country, is the knowl-
edge that there is another great nation, a
free nation, that sympathizes with them,
that understands them, as they fight for
liberty; that there is nation whose great
Declaration of Independence serves as
model upon which to base the structure of
their own government of very near fu-
ture.
Now, what do they finds
Is not the treaty of extradition which
Secretary Bayard has signed at Washing
ton, and has sent to st. Petersburg for the
signature of the Russian czar,-is it not
direct expression by the United States as
nation of its sympathy with the ac-
cursed cause of the Russian despot! Is it
not the moral approval by free and
great nation of the continuation of that
savage despotism'
That is how the Russian nation will un-
derstand this treaty, wholly unaware that
the Washington government is, like that
of Russia, not the government of the peo-
pie, by and for the people.
This treaty Is a conspiracy Of the tro qor-
,rnments against the t,co nations /; a aconsPir-
..v that should be pcremptorily destroyed